Driving home yesterday, the latest news of the presidential election came on the radio. As exciting as economic and health care policies are, I got to thinking about baseball. Commissioner Bud Selig is always under a lot of scrutiny, I thought...

Fresh off a holiday weekend, we can’t let our hitting streaks take a vacation on MLB.com Beat the Streak. The leader had his streak stopped at 48 games last week. Think about that. He was nine days away from winning $1 million...

I hope everybody has a wonderful Independence Day! For the past 232 years, the United States has had countless men and women fight for maintain what the Fourth of July has come to signify: our freedom...

A player on MLB.com Beat the Streak currently has a 46-game hitting streak. That means he's just 11 days away from winning $1 million. My current hitting streak is at two. Maybe he should be the one giving me advice on Bleacher Report...

As you may or may not know, I am a gigantic Pittsburgh Pirates’ fan. I had the chance to attend the Bucs’ game against the Yankees Tuesday night at PNC Park. In front of a full house, the Pirates blistered the Yankees for 12 runs on 19 hits...

Not a bad way to start this little picking game. It’s always nice to read the crawl on ESPN and see your guys doing well. It kind of reminds me of fantasy football season, which is right around the corner...

Want to win $1 million? If you stick with me, you can have it by late August. Who says there’s no such thing as easy money? MLB.com’s fantasy game, Beat the Streak, gives fans a chance to pick one player a day to get a hit...

Happy Father’s Day. I know that it’s a day early, but for the real day I’ll be with Dad at a baseball game. Throughout my life, it seems that baseball was always followed closely by Dad, and vice versa...

The Pittsburgh Pirates won last night, 12-11 in 12 innings. While that may seem like a standard line on a news report, it turned out to be much more than that. For better and for worse, this was unlike any Opening Day the Pittsburgh Pirates have ever had.

ESPN is always looking to expand its programming options to viewers, so here is a taste of what we may see should athletes continue to behave poorly. Chris Berman: Welcome back to the 2008 Federal Penitentiary League Draft...